Quotes with mournful

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  ― Brendan Gleeson
  Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

  ― Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

  ― Jean Baudrillard
  French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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• This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

  ― Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• lamentations
• never-ending
• remembrance
• everywhere
• confessed
• depressed

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